Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house.

The river of sound he decided to be the sound of a vibrational explosion of some sort.

That airplane of the slanted wings, the bulbous, almost bulletlike fuselage, what of it?

"I wish to show those of you who failed to see it the sinking of the Stellar, on which I was a passenger and, I believe, the only survivor."